DieterTheuns's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bon Appetit]

I absolutely love it.

Such a gorgeous graphical style, a cute story to match and it created such an amazing universe with its own rules. I love the little things you added in like the child at the beginning with the icecream in the face, the way the mother reacts as the girl asks her attention and every single expression was executed in a fantastic manner. The sound design was pretty great as well :)

Good job man!

[Game Grumps Animated]

It's an animatic because you don't want to do effort to finish it, is that what you're saying?

Because, really, every single one of these Game Grumps animations is the same goddamn thing. Why was this an animation? What made this "animation" stand out from the rest? You're using the yellowish colour scheme for what reason other than "others do it too"? You're not putting the audio in a new context nor doing anything remotely different with it. You're just drawing 2 guys on a couch reacting to playing a game. That's not the limitations of animation, you can do so much more.

Listen, I'm sure you can make some great stuff, you can clearly draw reasonably well and the very fact you started animating is great, but please, please, please let's see some original creations.

Mavuriku responds:

For the moment, I'm comfortable working just as so. I don't have the means to obtain a full animation program, at least not the one I'd lke to experiment with. My reasons for keeping to a similar style over all was intentional, as the GG fanbase seems to revolve around the same look. For now, I see it as iconic, and a view a lot of fans identify with concerning these little tributes. When I have more extra time and a decent program, perhaps I will have a go at a full blown animation. But for now, you'll have to be content with my carbon copy, mellow yellow, amateur animatic. Thank you for the conviction.

[Game Grumps : Ego's Anger]

Listen, I understand you're a fan of something and want to 'honor' something you love with your own content, and that's GREAT! It's amazing Game Grumps motivated you to make something of your own and I hope you keep motivated...

but why did you made this animation?

It's 2 guys sitting on the couch playing a game and having an exaggerated expression. This might as well have been the original recording. It didn't really add anything worth noting to the original clip; 2 guys on the couch playing a game (which to the viewer isn't exactly interesting), exaggerating an expression.

I'm not saying you can't make this interesting, take for example this SFM animation of the same audioclip here:
http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=omLve_vezbA

The author added dramatic music, some great lipsynching and emotion, even trying to break loose from the Sonic '06 aspect of it and change the context. Your animation on the other hand all that much. It stays far too faithful to the source material and the only thing I would MAYBE consider an addition is one or two faces that have a really grotesque appearance.

Now, get me wrong, I can see you made this with lots of love and let my review let you down. I would love to see you come up with more and original content :)

[SS - EnLIGHTenment]

This series keeps astounding me how it can keep saying nothing new for 15 minutes long, especially considering there is no lipsynch... which I'd reckon is the most important thing to get right for an animation based on a long monologue.

Why is the main character a cliché deviantartsy patched up doll? Does it have something to do with the topic? If so, what? Why did you include so many clips from other movies/documentaries/games or even animations? They only serve to highlight the fact that the animation and drawings themselves aren't particularly good. There WAS more animation in this vid than usual, I'll admit, but it's still very wonky. You really should learn to inbetween for your own sake.

Now, my final question to you: Why is this an animation. What advantages of the medium animation did you use that couldn't be done with a camera or just 1 whole collage of clips? Enlighten me.

RiverJordan responds:

Patchman never had a mouth, the character is telepathic so he doesn't need one. He's been around since lesson 1, so it makes sense that he's still here.

I like Animation, ever have since i was a wee lad. I'm doing my best to learn how to make great videos in the process, and having lots of fun with mixing animation and video editing ^_^

["The Worst"]

I'm completely flabbergasted. Not by the subject, hell, the subject is probably the least shocking in this thing. I'm just wondering how in the flying fuck you made this thing. Just Flash, you said? A-fucking-stounding. Style is completely right with some great colouring and monstrous design decisions. I actually somehow liked the faces from the audience more than the actual monsters.

If I had any criticism, it's mainly in the sound territory. This would have been so much more intruiging if you used sound effects instead of metal. It seems a bit of an obvious cop-out choice to have a song playing instead of doing the effort with good sound design.

Overall, kick-ass and sick animation. For the love of everything sacred, give us more.

Sherbalex responds:

sound effects would have added another dimension for the mind to digest and i didnt want that

[Internet Allstars 2011]

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Going by the reviews so far, I'm 'fraid your message was too subtle, mate :p
Nice justified stabs tho

RicePirate responds:

Maybe a big black screen with the words "THIS IS ANTI-MEME!" ... funnily, since this has come out there have been 2 Minecraft creeper movies, and 1 MLP game ... and it's only afternoon...